Repository
https://github.com/brave/browser-android-tabs
Components
This suggestion is to create a feature where one can schedule sites to visit at a particular time.
Proposal Description
Creating a feature which allows users get reminders about sites they want to visit at a particular time. Here the users simply schedule a date and time they want to visit a site and then the browser notifies them when the scheduled time comes. This proposal comes with 3 additions to make this feature fully functuonal.
- create a page to schedule visits to sites
- get notifications from the browser at your scheduled time
- Automatically load site on new tab if you are on browser.
Mockups / Examples
Creating a page to schedule visits
Here, the option of scheduling a visit to the site you are on at another desired time should be added to the list of options on the browser's menu.
Once set, you can view your scheduled posts on that same page with options to click, edit and delete. When adding the schedule feature, there should be a limit of time, maybe 30 days to which you can schedule visiting a site. A schedule above 30 days should not be allowed for better management of the feature.
Get notifications from the browser at your scheduled time
This should be how you get notified or reminded about your scheduled visit to a site. It should come as a normal notification bar which will take you to the site once you click on it. The notification should come a minute before your scheduled time, so you can have 60 more secs to meet up with your schedule (cover for bad networks with slow loading speed).
Automatically load site on new tab if you are on browser
This will be more beneficial for short time reminders. You could just decide to spend time on some other site, so to prevent you from getting carried away, you can set a schedule which will automaically load you to the site on a new tab if you are still on the browser. For this feature to work, the user has to be active on the browser at the scheduled time, so the browser automatically takes him to the scheduled site. This is more like an action, the scheduling process will still be the same, so there is no mock-up available for this feature.
Benefits
The benefits of this feature will be numerous. Meeting up with schedules is very important, reason why most people live with alarm reminders. Since the internet has become a home to many, i think browsers should also provide means of reminding people of their online schedules.
This feature will also be critical for sites with application forms which regularly opens and closes in badges. Setting a reminder at the scheduled time of form opening will give brace browser users an edge in accessing the site right on time.
This feature would also help one maintain a steady time for a particular activity online. It could be blogging, vlogging or streaming, so long as you make these things at a particular time, this feature will be essential. (E.g, as a product hunter, i post almost everyday by 4 pm on steemhunt, but i almost never keep up with this time, I'm always few minutes late. This addition will help a lot)